AuthorTopic: Panoramic Lens Question (Read 9943 times)

Are there any decent one shot panoramic lens' on the market for my canon 5d? I work a lot on the beaches and trying to capture crashing waves in a panorama is impossible when trying to take and merge several shots.

Are there any decent one shot panoramic lens' on the market for my canon 5d? I work a lot on the beaches and trying to capture crashing waves in a panorama is impossible when trying to take and merge several shots.

Any tips or ideas?

You could do it in one capture if you had enough pixels so that it would tolerate cropping.

But you can use most any lens to capture moving water and stitch it together to make a pano. Itís a challenge to accommodate the motion but with some work you can get good results. I use a long exposure and typically make several series. Once I get to PP itís not too much work to clean up the image. The following is 9 frames that are digitally stitched. I just printed this and even at 6í in length itís marvelous.

If you want really wide, I find my Sigma 12-24 works fairly well on my 5D Mark II. There's some distortion but it's corrected in post. I've shot several photos that I knew were going to be cropped to a panoramic.